Seti's TM log

[seti]

Got an ab wheel yesterday, inspired by Oldster. Awesome tool, went conservative with the exercise though. I plan to do it twice per week and increase the total reps each time.

09/10

Ab wheel
5,5,5 kneeling

[bustermonkey2]

09/04


The pressgrips went fine, although I'll ask for a spotter soon, just to be safe.

I would absolutely make sure you have a spotter on these. I don't have a lot of experience with them but I have noticed that there is almost no warning of when failure is imminent. When failure does occur on these, it's sudden and the weight drops back down quickly.

[seti]

Yeah don't worry, I'm asking for a spotter. Did these before with a bit larger weight and thus have some experience with them. I always ask for spotting on heavy bench presses.

09/11

BW: 98.9kg

Squat
20kg 2x5
60kg 1x5
100kg 1x3
120kg 1x2
140kg 6x2

Press
20kg 1x5
40kg 1x5
50kg 1x3
60kg 1x2
72.5kg 3x2
Push-Press
80kg 1x3 (PR)

Deadlift
100kg 1x3
130kg 1x1
152.5kg 1x2
162.5kg 1x1

Pressgrip bench
50kg 1x5 (paused)
70kg 1x3 (paused)
85kg 3x5
70kg 1x3 (paused)

DB rows
37.5kg 3x10

[seti]

09/13

Ab wheel
7,7,7 kneeling

[seti]

09/15

BW: 99.3kg

Squat
20kg 2x5
60kg 1x5
100kg 1x3
120kg 1x2
140kg 3x5

Press
20kg 1x5
40kg 1x5
50kg 1x3
60kg 1x2
67.5kg 5,4,4,3,3

DB bench press
27.5kg 3x8

Chins
10kg 3x3

Curls
20kg 1x5
30kg 1x5
40kg 1x5
20kg 1x25

[seti]

09/18

Squat
20kg 2x5
60kg 1x5
100kg 1x3
120kg 1x2
142.5kg 6x2

Press
20kg 1x5
50kg 1x5
60kg 1x3
70kg 1x1
77.5kg 5x1
Push Press
82.5kg 1x3 (PR)

Deadlift
100kg 1x3
130kg 1x2
152.5kg 1x2
162.5kg 1x1
170kg 1x1

Pressgrip bench
50kg 1x5
70kg 1x3
87.5kg 3x5

Kroc (DB) rows
40kg 1x16

25 minute walk home.

AB wheel
10,10 kneeling

Good training, although I wasn't very well rested today.

[bustermonkey2]

Good workout- made a new push press pr and did a full range of other lifts. How long did this take?

[seti]

Thanks. About 80 minutes I think. Since I'm only training twice a week, the sessions need to be a bit longer, compared to a 4 day split.

Its not that hard on my body though because of the singles and doubles. The other training day with sets of five squats and presses is obviously tougher. Since I'm basing this on a 6 week squat program from Jim Steel's new book of programs, the next three weeks will get interesting squat-wise. The other day will be intensity squats with singles across instead of the volume type squats of the previous three weeks, and this day I had today will still have doubles, next week it's a bit lighter, then there'll be a funny one, 12 doubles with 140kg, then on the last week (6th) the attempt at the new PR. That last week will only have that "attempt day", so no squats on day 1. Will see how it goes since the first three weeks had less volume than the book suggests, although I did them at a higher percentage of my max.

[bustermonkey2]

That's actually not too bad at 80 minutes. My workouts now are usually between 65-85 minutes. I've noticed that I need to get my big lifts out of the way first because I get pretty tired after about 45 minutes.

[seti]

09/20

Ab wheel
12,12 kneeling